DOPA Explorer 2.0: A web based tool assessing all large protected areas in support to conservation policies

The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) has been developed to support the European Union's efforts in strengthening our capacity to mobilize and use biodiversity data, information and forecasts so that they are readily accessible to policymakers, managers, experts and other users. Conceived as a set of web based services [1,2], DOPA provides a broad set of free and open source tools to assess, monitor and even forecast the state of and pressure on protected areas at local, regional and global scale. Recognized by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as a reference information system, DOPA Explorer is a web based interface of the DOPA providing simple means to rank prot…